MSNBC’s David Shuster: Sarah Palin ‘Has No Future
On Wednesday, MSNBC anchor David Shuster made a bold prediction about Sarah Palin’s political future: "I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sarah Palin will never recover from this...No matter what people say, no matter what these polls, she has no future." [audio available here] Shuster made the comments in the 4:00PM ET hour, following a debate between Democratic strategist David Goodfriend…
NY Senate Dems Fire 200 for Color Of Their Skin; Where's Media Coverag
The New York State Senate, it appears, has reached an all-time low.One might possibly overlook the legislative wrangling, the blatant power-playing, the use of thuggery to enforce a particular party’s control over the Senate. One might also overlook the unbelievable childish behavior of the Senate, in which even New York Governor Patterson, owner of the lowest approval rating of any governor in…
Whiff of Eugenics: Ginsburg Tells NYT Roe Was About 'Populations That
In a July 7 New York Times Magazine article ("The Place of Women on the Court"; HT to an e-mailer) apparently scheduled to appear in its July 12 print edition (based on its URL), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the Times's Emily Bazelon that "at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too…
Slow Joe Biden Visiting Cincy Today to See a 16-Obamazebo Stimulus Pro
Joe Biden is coming to Cincinnati to tout the stimulus plan. A local TV station is thrilled.If this is considered a good way to use stimulus money, we're in $800 billion worth of big trouble:The entire nation is about to get a look at exactly how federal stimulus money is being spent in the Tri-State. Tomorrow morning, Vice-President Joe Biden will be in Northside to look at how that neighborhood…
House Wants to Soak the Rich For Health Care; AP Forgets the 'Again' P
(Image found at BuriedPlanet.com)In a wildly meandering report on the status of the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Alliance's attempt to enact statist health care this year, Associated Press writers David Espo and Erica Werner:Told us that the House wants to slap a surtax on "highly paid" Americans without disclosing the percentage of the proposed surtax or how much it might raise.Forgot to tell us that…
MSNBC's Shuster Blames Murdoch for Perceived Slight of MSNBC by DirecT
Ah, Twitter.The fast-moving microblogging technology has become a household name. It is the technology that aided the recent Iranian uprising, that gave the global supporters of freedom and justice a way to communicate with the people on the ground in Iran – those poor, huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.Like much of the Internet, it is also sometimes a hive-mind of absurdity.Case in point…
Huff-Po: Democrats Proving Again That Compromise is Not an Option on H
In this report we get a nice one-two punch. Not only are we seeing Democrats once again refusing even a tiny compromise with Republicans on Obama's takeover of nearly 20% of our economy with his healthcare plans, but we also get to see another example of why Huffington Post is not journalism. I like a nice one-two punch for a Wednesday. For one thing, the HuffPo article hilariously calls Democrat…
What CNN Didn't Ask About Canada Health Care Rationing
On July 6, CNN’s American Morning may have positioned themselves as a fly in the White House’s public health-care ointment. In a story on Senator Mitch McConnell’s recent comments regarding Canadian national health care, CNN traveled to Canada to investigate whether this vision of long queues in health care was warranted. In investigating, however, CNN neglected to ask an important question of…
The Bailed-Out Two and Who? AP Report Nearly Ignores Impact of Ford on
In the later paragraphs of a story today about the latest hurdle bailed-out General Motors has managed to jump to get out of bankruptcy, the Associated Press's Bree Fowler almost totally ignored the impact of Ford's improvement largely at GM's expense during the first half of 2009, acting as if GM's decline has almost solely been the result of defections to foreign competitors.Fowler's only…
AP Bemoans Palin Disinterest in Alaska, Cries 'She No Longer Delivered
Imagine if you will, immersing yourself in the rich tones of Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand, singing of a romance gone astray:You don't bring me flowers, anymore... Now imagine the same syrupy lamenting of the AP, singing of a tragic breakfast gone astray:You don't bring them bagels, anymore...Such is the song of the AP to one Sarah Palin, in which they accuse the Alaska Governor of being '…
Orlando Sentinel Movie Reviewer Excited Harry Potter Fans Promoting Ga
Orlando Sentinel movie reviewer Roger Moore was excited to report on the efforts of some Harry Potter fans that want to "change the world" based on their interpretation of Potter character Dumbledore's philosophy of life. He was happy, you see, because the group is all about "global transformation" and spreading global warming fears, gay marriage and the Employee Free Choice Act.
Moore writes…
Burying the Lede: AP Report On Chrysler Board Questions At Very End Wh
Oh. So. Predictable -- Both what is happening, and how it is being "covered."Chrysler is barely out of bankruptcy, and there is already concern as to whether the money Uncle Sam, (i.e., U.S. taxpayers) funneled into the company -- while in the process of ripping off and intimidating its secured creditors, capriciously terminating plants and dealers, and running roughshod over long-held notions of…
Press Continues to Ignore the Public’s Shunning of Bailed-out GM and
Part 1 ("The Big Picture") is here.Quick:Which company sold the most light trucks in the U.S. in June?Which company came in at Number 9 in car sales in June, down from Number 7 a year ago?Aren't smaller players in the auto industry obviously gaining ground on the big guys because of their small, fuel-efficient cars?If you don't know the answers to these questions, it's because the press has been…
Press Continues to Ignore the Public's Shunning of Bailed-out GM and C
We are now six months into the failed Auto Bailout Era. Looking at the industry's four biggest companies, it has become clear that Ford is on the rise, General Motors continues to slip badly, Chrysler is fading into minor-player status, and Toyota's ongoing struggles continue. In May, after April's sales results came out, two Associated Press writers noted Ford's ascendancy and uniquely hinted at…
